The center’s latest report, titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair, called the entertainment industry’s pledges to promote inclusion “performative acts” and “not real steps towards fostering change”. - The Guardian
Customer defections across premium streaming services rose to 6.3% in November, from 5.1% a year earlier. About one-quarter of U.S. subscribers to major streaming services—a group that includes Apple TV+, Discovery+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock and Starz—have canceled at least three of them over the past two years. - The Wall Street Journal
The Blu-ray and DVD releases of Oppenheimer, for example, sold out in a week or so. Some of this is the basic fan/collector impulse, but much of it is awareness that corporations can remove individual titles from streaming availability more-or-less at will, but they can't come and take your discs. - BBC
The successor company to a merger between CBS Radio and Entercom, Audacy manages 235 radio stations in 48 US media markets. A decline in advertising revenue has reportedly left the company unable to service $2 billion in debt. - Inside Radio
"These activations offer titles another way to stand out, literally, amid a crowded mediascape. For series, specifically, they offer a way to retain fans between seasons." - The New York Times
Just a year after the expiration of copyright on another extremely cute character was swiftly followed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the passage into the public domain of the oldest version of Disney's cheerful rodent was marked by the trailer for the upcoming horror flick Mickey's Mouse Trap. - BBC
“When you lose half a year of production, 2024 will be a downturn,” O’Leary says. “We have to be realistic. If any industry lost half a year of production, there would be an impact in the following year. - Variety
After being labeled “state-affiliated media” and then “government-funded media” by Twitter shortly after Musk took over the company, NPR ceased posting on the social media platform where NPR’s main Twitter account had 8.7 million followers, and its politics account had nearly three million. - InsideRadio
"In a world … where moviegoing isn’t what it once was and blockbusters run three hours … a great trailer gets audiences motivated to check out a film on opening weekend. But the very best previews are so much more than that: They hold up as short-form works of art in their own right." - Variety
Streaming was offered as an alternative to the traditional TV business model, which had remained largely unchanged for decades. The streamer could also act as the production company and distributor, eliminating the need to spend months or years arranging financing. - Los Angeles Times
"The rosiest spin you can put on this sudden collapse is that it’s the equivalent of a stock-market correction. … But it’s not clear that the industry has a backup plan. … Barbenheimer’s might was a light in the darkness, … (and) Hollywood loves nothing more than copying success, but what is Barbenheimer’s takeaway?" - Slate
This doesn't mean the outlets will stop operating, as the term "liquidation" would mean in English-speaking countries. The move is one of the few legal means available for the administration of prime minister Donald Tusk's government to start undoing the thorough politicization of the broadcaster under the Law and Justice Party. - BBC
These franchises are spelling their own downfalls. This year has been a prime of example of what happens when a pop-culture movement takes hold of an industry and then overreaches. We’re witnessing Ragnarok. - The New York Times
“Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.” - Deadline
